Table of Contents  
Foreword 
About the Series 
About This Case Study 
About the Author 
Acknowledgments 
List of Figures 
Ch. 1. Four Questions, Four Journeys 
The Geography and Prehistory of Bali 
Ch. 2. Beginning Fieldwork 
Beginning Research 
Defining a Research Topic 
The Balinese Map of the Inner and Outer Worlds 
The Tika: Cycles of Time 
The Inner Compass and the Human Life Cycle 
The Inner Compass and the Community 
Ch. 3. Art and Everyday Life 
Alango 
Taksu and a Poet's Right 
Taksu and the Puppeteer People 
Art in the Villages 
Art, Ritual, and Temples 
A Calon Arang Performance at the Temple of Death 
Conclusion: Art and Balinese Culture 
Ch. 4. The Goddess and the Green Revolution 
The Goddess of the Lake and Her Temple 
A Quarrel between Subaks 
The Cosmological Role of Water Temples 
Ecology of the Rice Terraces 
Ecological Crisis: The Green Revolution 
Studying the Ecological Role of Water Temples 
Water Temples As a Complex Adaptive System 
Conclusion: Are the Water Temples Obsolete? 
Ch. 5. Bali and the West 
Lost Causes and Impossible Odds (the "Purwa Senghara") 
The King's Poem 
The Priest's Poem 
Opium Reconsidered 
Colonial Bali 
The Post-Colonial Era 
World Renewal 
Appendix: An artist's impression of the water temple system 
Appendix: Plan of the Temple of the Crater Lake 
Films about Bali 
Glossary of Balinese Terms 
Recommended Readings 
Index